Zorro, Avenger and Scamp

Zorro was the avenger of crimes against humanity. During the battle for control of California, the enemy committed crimes and took lives until Zorro saved the day.

If you’re familiar with the Antonio Bandaros version of THE MASK OF ZORRO, you know humor abounds as young protégé Zorro perfects his skills in the shadow of the master. He quickly conquers the rules of etiquette to accomplish the tasks at hand. Saving lives of peasants and winning admiration of fair maidens are the young Zorro's goals, though not necessarily in that order.

With this in mind, along with the relief of glimpsing a light at the end of an alpha-omega tunnel, I gleefully completed the A to Z Challenge, a smile firmly plastered across my face.

My alphabet-challenging story

tells of Zorro’s eagerness

to gain the attentions of countless young women.

(Hastening his fair maidens, capricious from Lenten-fast weakness, to the water’s edge, Zorro ignores the lewd events transpiring below, that mirror his fanciful youth when he too eagerly imbibed, to hallucinogenic excess)

Zorro yanks

xerophagically whimsical virgins

upon the shimmering river's quay,

passing over

naughty malfeasants lasciviously kissing jocular impenitents -

 - hilariously groggy from energetically

drinking chimerical,

brewery ale.